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This is part two of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

Why financial stability is freedom

Info: This is part two of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

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This is part one of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

How I choose contracts and clients

Info: This is part one of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

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Past titles are not an accurate indicator of skill - to me - because they describe length of experience, and not skill. Experience is only weakly releated to Talent, so what indicators do I use to identify skilled candidates?

Experience ~ Talent

I have had many titles during my career, and most of them have included the modifiers like “Junior” or “Senior”. I have also worked with …

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Taking chances is something we all do, but most of us prefer taking calculated risks. Gambling is not a calculated risk, it's taking a risk far too great for gain that's far too small by comparison.

Stop gambling with Scrum

I used to play Texas Hold’em back when it was the popular thing to do. Like so many others I’d watched it on TV, and with the sudden availability of …

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In my experience, the retrospective is the most underutilized and straightforward ceremony in Scrum. Let's fix that...

How to benefit from a retrospective

In my experience, the retrospective is the most underutilized and straightforward ceremony in Scrum. I’ve sat in numerous retrospectives, where issues …

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Scrum is probably the most widely used agile development process, but it can become a cargo cult. Did yours?

When Scrum becomes a Cargo Cult

You probably started making changes to Scrum to make it “better fit” your organization or team, and at that point, it became “Scrum, …

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